The Museum of The Moving Image
36-01 35th Ave, Queens, NY 11106
Documentary and Short Film Science Fiction Block
The Redstone Theater
4 pm 6 pm
Chaska Trailer (trailer)
Director Liz Guarracino
United States, 2 min
How would you feel if you found out the US Government created LINEAGE INDUSTRIES to catch a single being?
Time Sentinel ( Trailer)
Director Aldo Romero
US, 2 minutes
"An ex-marine suffering from PTSD believes he becomes a time-traveling superhero when he dreams."
SHORT DOCUMENTARY PRESENTATION
Is Not Up to Us
Director Anthony Werhun
US, 13 min
Legendary visual artist Nancy Burson sparked a technological revolution by using computer morphing techniques to blend art and science but claims she didn’t do it alone. The complex truth behind Nancy's beliefs and how they shaped her career evokes questions about the nature of creation and of reality itself.
Q@A with Nancy Burson after the screening
Tales From the Far Side of Reality
Purgy's
Director Robbie Bryan
United States,17 min
At a magical bar, spirits from the other side can take the form of another human and interact with those in their past who need closure and re-connection.
Starring Arnold Chun ( Man in the High Castle)
Q@A with Arnold Chun, Robbie Ryan, and Producer Spero Stamboulis
The Fisherman's Wife
Director Jared Watson
United States, 9 min
A fisherman struggles to sustain himself and his daughter. His net catches only plastic refuse and animal carcasses. One bleak morning, after another failed fishing expedition, the fisherman makes a surprise discovery: a mermaid, washed ashore. She’s tangled in a net, terrified, and struggling to breathe.
Q@A with the director after the screening
Soulmate
Director Richard Fenwick
United Kingdom 15 min
Anna, a lonely computer coder, has been nurturing an illegal romance with an AI in a computer simulation for the past six months. When her company uncovers the affair, she’s forced into a desperate battle to save her precious relationship.
Q@A with the director after the screening
Buffering...Please Wait
Director Samantha Cheryl Lai
Canada 14 min
A nameless woman confronts the memory device embedded inside her brain, in search of a loss identity. The truth, however, bears too much weight. Whatever she uncovers, continues to weigh her down, time and time again
Q@A with the director after the screening
The Unquiet Dead
Director John Gray
United States 12 min
A therapist treats an unstable young woman who claims to be harassed by an assortment of malevolent spirits who are demanding something from her.
Q@A with the director after the screening
Lift Me Up
Director Daniel Corey
US, 4 min
Set in a futuristic Blade Runner Universe, "Lift Me Up" is a music video that gives the listener a feel that blends the aura of Paul Simon with the rustic Americana of Bruce Hornsby and the raise-the-roof anthems of U2
Q@A with the director after the screening